‘Both Labour and US Democrats will have to challenge power if they are going to speak for working people and change a broken system that isn’t delivering for the majority,’ a spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn urged.

‘Both Labour and US Democrats will have to challenge power if they are going to speak for working people and change a broken system that isn’t delivering for the majority,’ a spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn urged.

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks to launch his bid to retain the leadership of the party, at the University College London Institute of Education in London, Thursday, July 21, 2016. (AP/Matt Dunham)

LONDON — The British Labour Party went on the attack after President Barack Obama criticized Jeremy Corbyn, the party’s leader.

The spat between high-profile representatives of the two left-leaning parties divided by the Atlantic Ocean comes as Democrats consider their future with President-elect Donald Trump preparing to take office and the GOP in control of Congress and the majority of state legislatures.

“The Labour Party just sort of disintegrated in the face of their defeat and move so far left that it’s, you know, in a very — in a very frail state,” Axelrod suggested.

Obama responded: “I don’t worry about that, partly because I think that the Democratic Party has stayed pretty grounded in fact and reality.”

The outgoing president suggested the Republican Party has moved further to the right over the past decade or two, away from “basic consensus around things like climate change or how the economy works.”

Comparing Corbyn to Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont and 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful, Obama continued: “I think people like the passion that Bernie brought, but Bernie Sanders is a pretty centrist politician relative to … Corbyn or relative to some of the Republicans.”

Leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘I, Daniel Blake’, at a central London, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

Responding to Obama’s comments and the overall concept of “Corbynization,” a spokesperson for the Labour leader suggested Democrats should embrace a more liberal platform, rather than pursue compromise with Republicans.

“Both Labour and U.S. Democrats will have to challenge power if they are going to speak for working people and change a broken system that isn’t delivering for the majority,” the spokesperson told The Guardian on Dec. 27

The spokesperson continued:

“What Jeremy Corbyn stands for is what most people want: to take on the tax cheats, create a fairer economy, fund a fully public NHS [National Health Service], build more homes and stop backing illegal wars.

For the establishment, those ideas are dangerous. For most people in Britain, they’re common sense and grounded in reality.”

Rather than “Corbynization,” British politics may have suffered from “Americanization” in recent years, as neoliberal initiatives, such as increased privatization of public services and cuts to the social safety net, have become increasingly commonplace. Corbyn’s leadership, by contrast, is widely seen as a rejection of neoliberalism in Britain.

Although Sanders was defeated in the 2016 presidential primaries, analysts like Diane Abbott, a member of Parliament from the Labour Party, suggest that the continued popularity of Sanders and Corbyn represents an ongoing need for progressive, anti-corporate voices in the political arena.

“It would be a mistake for the party establishment on both sides of the Atlantic to dismiss this insurgency, and think that things can return to how they were,” Abbott wrote in The Guardian in August.

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It made it perfectly clear what must be done . I will never acknowledge this elections legitimacy until we have justice. There should be a Trump VS Sanders standoff, let the American people decide. It’s not a normal circumstance by any means. Its become painfully clear That will never come under Obama’s administration as Clinton is too well connected and must have dirt on them all. We must fight back harder than ever to restore balance before it’s too late. We’ve got to protect our constitutional right to free and FAIR elections or we might as well be living in North Korea.

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Oh, wow. NOW London thinks it can tell the US/us how to solve our problems. Thanks, but no thanks.

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Oh Boy, you obviously don’t know how bad it’s going for the Labour Party over here. They are not the ones to be listening to right now. It’s like taking parenting advise from Josef Fritzl.

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LOL! The Dems are finishing up 8 years with the presidency. They had both Houses of Congress and the Presidency from 2009-2011 and squandered it on Obamacare.

If the “system” is broken, it’s because they broke it. They are now the “reactionaries” trying to prevent the real revolution where Americans take back their country and enforce laws.

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